Includes bibliographical references and index.

Fearful symmetry? : higher education and the logic of the market / Peter John and Joelle Fanghanel -- Private commodities and public goods : markets and values in higher education / Peter Scott -- Paying the price of expansion : why more for undergraduates in England means less for everyone / Helen Carasso and William Locke -- Choice in the learning market : tokenistic ritual or democratic education? / Rajani Naidoo -- Marketing and marketisation : what went wrong, and how we can put it right? / Rob Cuthbert -- Scotland and the higher education market / Tony Bruce -- Contractualising the student experience through university charters / Joanna Williams -- Uk universities as a single entity : striking a balance between public and private needs / Bernard Longden -- Some considerations on higher education as a "post-experience good" / Morgan White -- The "unravelling" of English higher education / Patrick Ainley -- Regulating risk in the higher education state: implications for policy and research / Roger King -- How the Home Office became a regulator of higher education in England / Geoffrey Alderman -- Making a difference : the roles of markets and the roles of quality assurance regimes / John Brennan -- Shifting perspectives on research and teaching relationships : a view from Australia / Angela Brew -- Developing criticality in learning and teaching through pedagogical action research / Lin Norton -- Reshaping understandings, practices and policies to enhance the links between teaching and research / Alan Jenkins and Mick Healey -- Engaging the international scholarly and policy community through active dialogue on the research-teaching nexus / Vaneeta D'Andrea -- A critical reflection on leadership in higher education / Robin Middlehurst -- Reflections on evidence and higher education policy / Gareth Williams -- Academic quality and academic responsibility: a critical reflection on collegial governance / David D. Dill -- Policy, what policy? : considering the university in the twenty-first century / Ronald Barnett -- Higher education and the market : thoughts, themes, threads / Joelle Fanghanel and Peter John.